EUPHORBIA FULGENS. 



twenty-four hours. It appears to have been introduced first into the English 

 gardens at Bayswater by Mr. M. F. Rauch, about the year 1835, and who has 

 published an account of it in the twelfth volume of the Gardener's Magazine, 

 page 390, from which we abstract the following interesting particulars. He 

 says, " Euphorbia fulgens is an elegant and very ornamental plant of the 

 following characteristics. It is a branched, upright, leafy, freely-growing and 

 freely-flowering shrub. All its green parts bear a glaucous bloom. Its shoots 

 are slender, twig-like, round, glabrous, and curved outward in the terminal 

 portion ; bearing the flowers along this portion in groups, in the axils of the 

 leaves. The leaves have petioles nearly one inch long, and disks that are 

 lanceolate, tapering to both ends, entire, about three inches long, and from half 

 an inch to an inch across the broadest part. The groups of flowers are upon 

 short stalks, and consist of from two to four flowers (as they would be ordinarily 

 called), each upon a stalk about one inch long, and each showy from its invo- 

 lucre, which is of a bright red colour, and which has a tube of less than half an 

 inch long, and horizontally-spread border of a diameter somewhat less than that 

 of a sixpenny piece, and consisting of five obcordate lobes. One may imagine 

 that a bush abounding in groups of the involucres displayed together must be 

 splendid, and well merits the application of the epithet fulgens ; which, however, 

 the inventor of the name may rather have intended to express a brilliance in the 

 redness than the general effect produced by a display of flowers of this colour. 

 The plant appears disposed to produce plenty of seeds." 



It requires stove heat, and should be potted in sandy loam and peat with 

 plenty of drainers, and ought to receive but a limited supply of water during 

 winter. It may be propagated by cuttings, either of the old or young wood, which 

 ought to be taken off with a heel, as the other parts of the wood are very 

 spongy, and liable to rot before taking root. 



The generic name Euphorbia is given in honour of Euphorbus, a physician to 

 Juba, king of Mauritana. 



